blame CNN.

They created the modern 24 hour news cycle, which slowly destroyed news media in general over the next 40 years.

There is not enough happening to sustain a 24 hour news cycle, so it becomes constant hammering of the slightest incidents, or crimes from 800lbs a way, or whatever it takes.

Thus creating the guise, for people not capable of critical thought, that the world is on fire and crime is rampant. . when they are seeing nothing but the same crime being reported on 200 times over 2 days, and the occasional incident from somewhere they'd never go and has no relevance on them or their local area, much less their entire state.